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Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester, but it managed to escape 
from the room it was kept in, and actually travelled 
down to the rocks, and got away to sea. 
The fishermen say that the seal is well known along the 
coast, and breeds in the more inaccessible clefts and caverns 
in the bold sea cliffs, from the North Stack to Bfioscolyn. 
The Welsh name for The Skerries, the well known rocky 
islets off Carmels Point, is Ynysoecld Moelroniaid , the Isles 
of Seals. A century back, the seal was very common on 
these rugged and little frequented coasts. 
A tew years ago, a shoal of Cetaceans found their way to 
the head of Cymmeran Bay and were stranded in the strait 
which divides Holyhead from Anglesea. They proved to 
be the Bottle-nosed Dolphin, Tursio truncatus , of Mon- 
tagu. 
The common Porpoise, Phoccena communis , not infre- 
quently is seen and captured when sporting out in the 
channel. 
The additions to the fishes already enumerated, are not 
many, for it is not easy to obtain specimens of the species 
that are small and worthless for the table-— they readily 
escape through the nets used for mackerel and herrings. 
Specimens of big sharks are often seen in the bay by the 
fishermen, but they give them a wide birth, and I 
cannot make out the species from the imperfect descriptions 
given in such an unscientific tongue as is the mixed Welsh 
and English. 
The Picked Dogfish, Acanthias vulgaris , will at times get 
caught in the nets during the night, after making a hearty 
meal upon the cod and whiting. 
The spotted Bay, Rctia maculata , is often captured by 
trawling, but it is not used for food, being cut up like its 
congenor the thornbaek Bay, as bait for lobsters and crabs. 
The Turbot, Rhombus maximus, is caught of moderate 
size. 
